The progress toward a revitalized downtown over the last seven years has been extraordinary with nearly $300 million in new investment, new businesses and a new energy. However, lingering public safety challenges remain a critical challenge in maintaining the momentum downtown.
That is why
Downtown Eugene, Inc., the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce and a host of aligned downtown interests and organizations have joined forces to develop and advance solutions aimed at improving the overall public safety environment in downtown. For all of the wonderful progress that has been made, persistent illegal and unpleasant behaviors occur in downtown enabled by a lack of accountability or consequences for those actions. There are physical spaces that are abused, misused or underused. Additionally, there are opportunities available to better connect those who need and want social services to resources available.
The coalition labeled the Downtown Eugene Partnership, aspires to build a new constructive strategy to address the criminal activity in our public spaces downtown while to addressing the kind of behaviors that will prevent our downtown from realizing its true potential and make downtown a place that is welcoming to all.
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